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After Effects Expressions Tutorial 3: Expressions as a Pocket Calculator in After Effects

This class gives you a systematic overview of the basics of the expressions language in After Effects. You learn how to do basic math and how to use variables to access almost everything in your project. This allows you, for example, to place layers relative to other layer or let them adjust to the size of the composition automatically. We also show how to scale and offset a motion path with expressions.

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This class gives you a systematic overview of the basics of the expressions language in After Effects. You learn how to do basic math and how to use variables to access almost everything in your project. This allows you, for example, to place layers relative to other layer or let them adjust to the size of the composition automatically. We also show how to scale and offset a motion path with expressions.

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